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Curious to know more about people's experiences:
- Any online communities that have been helpful
- Good app / platform recs that have been useful along the way
- How was the transition to college (if attended) and adulthood if your kid is already grown up
- Anything that was a game changer that helped make homeschooling a positive experience
How old are your kids?
Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or at least structured) time constraints on homeschooling (i.e. don't let it drag into the whole day; we had to be up, dressed, breakfasted, and ready to start at 9am, and we needed to be done by noon and didn't get lunch until our school work was done).
I was homeschooled and will be homeschooling our kids (first one coming early January 2027!). Game-changers for me growing up, that I think my parents did really well: - change the curriculum to match the kid (i.e. learning styles, difficulty, pace) - use the public schools for electives, sports, drama, etc (my siblings took music classes for 1 period each day, we all did school sports still, etc) - have strict (or a…
I was a camp counselor in my late teens and early 20s, and we could always tell which kids were homeschooled. Always.
In a positive or negative way?
Although they have a bias that makes their attribution of positives and negatives imprecise, the list of top-upvoted posts of all time on the Reddit subreddit /r/homeschoolrecovery contains many examples to motivate wanting a success story and not a failure story.
It's not all doom and gloom. The success stories of homeschooling outperform even wealthy public schools in life outcomes and health, so the reward is there.
i will be